Susan Gilroy, PhD

Dr. Susan Gilroy is the Librarian for Undergraduate Writing Programs at Harvard College. In that role, she works closely with preceptors and first-year students in Expository Writing. She is also a Research Librarian, and in that capacity, serves as the library's "public face" – or "library liaison" -- to three, interdisciplinary programs: the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and African and African American Studies. She says the best – most rewarding and wonderfully challenging part of her job – is helping students learn to problem solve, develop good information-seeking strategies, and succeed at academic research. 

She has a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Simmons University in Boston and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Vanderbilt University.